I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
ROWAN ATKINSONExcellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
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Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
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To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.
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But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
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Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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Mr. Bean had a very good chance of being successful and long-running.
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The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.
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Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It’s not as flip, irrelevant, and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
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I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.
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You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.
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